Girl's foot gets stuck in White Sands mall escalator

SINGAPORE: A four-year-old girl was taken to hospital after her right foot got stuck in an escalator at the White Sands mall in Pasir Ris on Friday (Aug 11) evening. The incident, which took place at around 9.30pm, saw the girl trapped in the escalator descending from level two to level one of White Sands, the mall's general manager Dennis Cheong said in a statement to Channel NewsAsia. Eyewitness Isaiah said he was eating with family and friends at Gurney Drive Signatures on level three of the shopping mall when he suddenly heard a commotion from below. "We were eating and suddenly a kid cried out ... (I) looked down and saw a kid (with her foot) stuck in between the escalator, and her mum holding on," the 37-year-old pastor told Channel NewsAsia. "Then everyone (was) rushing to stop the escalator and help the kid." He said that the shopping mall's staff members and secur...